10th April, 2020
The Management of Lagos Airport Hotel Limited, Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria has debunked reports that the hotel has been razed by fire.
The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Lagos Airport Hotel, Kayode Bakare, said in a statement on Friday that the attention of the management had been drawn to online publication in some of the Nigerian Newspapers of Thursday, 9th April, 2020 captioned “Fire guts Airport Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos.”
“The management of the hotel wishes to state categorically that LAGOS AIRPORT HOTEL LIMITED IKEJA was not gutted by fire yesterday, Thursday, 9th April, 2020. It was a fire incident at the frontal car park of the hotel which affected three vehicles and not the building as reported.
“The fire outbreak occurred at the rented space of a car hire company who is a tenant to the hotel. The fire affected three of the vehicles of that company,” he said.
Bakare said the fire did not extend to any building or property of the hotel, saying that prompt response by the Lagos State Fire Service and men of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency helped in extinguishing the fire and dousing the tension.
He said the cause of the fire outbreak was yet to be established while investigation into the incident was ongoing.
“We seize this opportunity to correct the news flying around that Lagos Airport Hotel Ikeja was burnt by fire on Thursday, 9th April, 2020.
“The management of Lagos Airport Hotel Ikeja urge the entire public, our esteemed customers and all stakeholders of the hotel to completely disregard such news.
“We assure our customers of their complete safety and that of the hotel’s property which is also being adequately secured even as the hotel complies with the lockdown directives of the federal government in these times of COVID-19. We also enjoin all our clients to stay safe this season,” he said.